## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1176426 **Charity's principal address** 61 BRIDGE STREET BACK TO BASICS CIO N/A KINGTON HEREFORESHIRE **Postcode HR5 3DJ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||GAVIN LONG|||| ||KWOK-HO TANG|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** CONSTITUTION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods APPOINTED - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILLHEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE IN SANDWELL AND THE UK; BY PROVIDING FACILITIES TO TEACH SKILLS ON EFFECTIVE FARMING AND: PROVIDING GRANTS TO ASSIST THOSE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO TAKE PART IN SUCH ACTIVITIES. **TAR** March **2012** 2 THESE PAST 12 MONTHS HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING PRESERVATION OF OUR GREEN SPACES, PARTICIPATING IN VARIOUS PROTESTS TO SAVE TREES, PLANT TREES AND DISCUSSIONS WITH LOCAL COUNCILLORS ON HOW WE COULD INCORPORATE THE COMMUNITY TO BETTER UTILISE OUR GREEN SPACES. THIS HAS INCLUDED, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LIMITED TO, PLANTING FLOWERS FROM OUR 'SEED BOMB CREATION' WORKSHOPS, WORKING WITH VARIOUS BOROUGH COUNCILS FROM THE DONATION OF IKEA TREE SAPLINGS TO PLANT SMALL ORCHARDS AND REPLACE TREES WHICH WERE IN ILL HEALTH, WITH NEW SAPLINGS. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** IN ADDITION, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH P.A.T RUNNING VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS ON HOW DIFFERENT FUNGI CAN REGENERATE DAMAGED SOIL ECOLOGY. MANAGING OUR DONATIONS, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON WORKSHOPS TO SHOW THE CURRENT PROGRESS OF THESE EXPERIMENTS AND INTEND ON ENGAGING WITH THE PUBLIC TO GENERATE INTEREST USING A HANDS-ON METHOD AND WORKING ON DIFFERENT WAYS TO INVOLVE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIB, FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATIONS OR DONATIONS WITHIN THE NEXT 6-8 MONTHS. WE HAVE ALSO INSTALLED VARIOUS BIRD NESTING BOXES FOLLOWING THE FROST AND STORMY SEASONS, TO AID OUR POLLINATORS FOR THIS COMING YEAR, RAISING AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE VARIATION OF POLLINATORS OUR PLANET DEPENDS ON TO SURVIVE. WE CONTINUED TO RUN OUR WORMERY SESSIONS ONLINE AND INTEND ON SETTING UP LIVE CAMERA FEEDS WITHIN THE NEXT 12-18 MONTHS SO THAT WE CAN CAPTURE THE FOOTAGE FOR EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING PURPOSES. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** THERE HAS BEEN A GROWTH IN THE ENGAGEMENT OF ACTIVITIES WE HAVE RAN, WITH MANY RECOGNISING THAT WE ARE AN INCLUSIVE CHARITY TO THOSE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES. WE HAVE RECEIVED POSITIVE FEEDBACK TO THOSE WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN OUR ACTIVITIES VIA OUR FEEDBACK FORMS, WITH SUGGESTIONS ON IMPROVEMENTS WHICH WE ARE EXPLORING OTHER FUNDRAISING OPTIONS TO IMPLEMENT. WE HAVE ALSO LAUNCHED MINI COMPETITIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, FOR MOST CREATIVE IDEAS ON WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR WASTE, AND 'HOW BIG IS YOUR COMPOST HEAP', WITH AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF ENTRIES. THIS IS A GREAT MEASURE OF SUCCESS TO SPREADING AWARENESS OF HOW WE CAN IMPROVE OUR ATTITUDES TOWARDS CARING FOR OUR PLANET, OUR SOIL AND OUR ECOLOGY. **TAR** March **2012** 4 **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** THE CHARITY TRUSTEES HAS EXAMINED AND AGREED THAT AT THIS STAGE, THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT FOR RESERVES. AS THE ORGANISATION GROWS TO ESTABLISH ANY ASSETS, THIS POLICY WILL BE RE-EXAMINED. **Details of any funds materially** NO FUNDS MATERIALLY IN DEFICIT **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** GAVIN LONG KWOK-HO TANG **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** TREASURER CHAIR **TAR** March **2012** 5 Date 20105122 20105122 TAR Mar¢h 2012